Anyway - I am still not convinced SPAM in XMPP is real. Does anybody have real experience with SPAM in XMPP network? I know about SPAM from 'transported' IM's (e.g. ICQ), but this is not an issue of XMPP and should not be handled by XMPP servers.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Peter Viskup <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > I just went trough the discussions 'How is XMPP better than SMTP for spam > prevention?' [1] and fresh 'DNSBLs' [2] and was little bit thinking about > the fighting against SPAM accounts. > I have one - probably not bad/well - opinion: > - define XEP in this way (sorry for any not well formed sentences ;-) ): > > 1) each XMPP account have SPAM-ratio and each server is administering SPAM > ratio's for it's accounts > 2) every XMPP messsage user received can user mark as SPAM and this will > send the 'SPAM-hit' to the XMPP server of sender JID > 3) every XMPP server is calculating the number of messages sent by the XMPP > account for last session/week/month/any-other-timeframe and 'SPAM-hit' and > the account will be blocked/removed if the threshold of SPAM-limit will be > reached > 4) it is needed to find way how to gain with not polite XMPP servers > (servers which have not well defined this 'anti-SPAM' XEP) > > This (in more sophisticated design) could be the right fighting tool > against SPAM. > > It will be: > - decentralised > - not based on bloking DNSs/IPs (the worst way to deal with SPAM on XMPP) > - all XMPP users will be involved in anti-SPAM fight (much powerful like > any SpamAssassin) > - not using too much server resources > - not based on the list of DNSs/IPs which will be growing in time > > Something similar is probably already in discussion within XMPP Working > Group or somewhere else - I really do not know. > This was just very quick thought about anti-SPAM solution for XMPP. This is > not final Draft of XMPP WG :-). > I do not like CAPTCHA and W/BLs - if there is any other way how to > implement anti-SPAM and improve security of XMPP network - then do that in > way when comfort of polite users will not be affected. > > I think that the key for the 'right/best' anti-SPAM XMPP solution is to > involve regular/polite XMPP users in any way. > > Best regards, > Peter Viskup > > [1] http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/juser/2008-August/006552.html > [2] http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/operators/2009-November/000728.html >
